I Transmigrated to Douluo and Split into Five People

"Not being able to fly without a flying skill does seem a little strange."

At Spirit Hall Academy, there was simply a distinction between upper grades and primary grades. There were no Primary Spirit Master Academies or Advanced Spirit Master Academies like those within the Two Great Empires. Graduation requirements differed according to the students' Innate Soul Power levels.

However, once one reached Level Forty, they would automatically graduate. Someone like An Lan, with Innate Soul Power of only level two, could either apply to leave after obtaining his first Spirit Ring or apply to enter the upper grades and continue studying.

But once one applied to enter the upper grades, it meant voluntarily joining Spirit Hall. After graduation, they would be assigned to various positions at branch halls across the land. Only those with extraordinary talent and exceptional martial soul abilities would remain in Spirit City.

An Lan found an opportunity to approach the upper-grade students' training grounds and observe them from afar. He recorded not only Avian Spirit Masters, but all Spirit Masters with Beast Spirits.

Among those with three Spirit Rings or fewer, there were observable differences in their Martial Soul Possession forms.

He reached a conclusion.

"If I can improve the quality of my Soul Power, or partially solidify my martial soul body, could I fly?"

"Use compression to improve its quality? I don't even have a Spirit Ring yet. Raising it to the quality of a Thousand-Year Spirit Ring through compression is pure fantasy. Besides, that method requires quantity as a foundation, and the amount of Soul Power I have right now..."

He was merely a level-four Spirit Scholar.

"Partially solidify my martial soul body? The Blue Lightning secret technique, Dragon Transformation? Once Yu Tianrui gains access to information on that, I can use it as a reference."

No matter what, as long as there was a possibility, An Lan wanted to take flight using his own abilities. Wasting a Spirit Ring slot on a flying skill would be useless in the later stages. It would be far more useful to have a buffing skill.

Elsewhere, at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

In his spare time from cultivation, Ning Yulin was also researching his martial soul. He wanted to know whether the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda's support abilities were an inherent limitation of the martial soul itself, or merely a fixed impression formed by the choices of previous generations over many years. In any case, he only displayed Innate Soul Power of level two. His aptitude was too poor, so Ning Fengzhi would not restrict his independent research too much.

"Once Rongrong awakens a Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda with Innate Soul Power of level nine, he probably won't pay much attention to his sons anymore, much less me, the sixth child with only Innate Soul Power of level two."

Even now, Ning Fengzhi rarely appeared before him. Of course, Ning Yulin himself did not often go to pay his respects either. They only occasionally met during family dinners.

Shaking his head, he continued flipping through the Spirit Beast Compendium. When the time came to obtain Spirit Rings, he could provide some help to the other four. Then a figure appeared above him. He turned and glanced over.

"Big Brother."

Ning Fengzhi's eldest son, Ning Yuxuan, was only twenty-four and had recently broken through to Spirit King. He could be considered a genius. However, his martial soul was not the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda. It had mutated into the Glazed Sword, which possessed the same nature as the Glazed Pagoda and was also support-oriented.

"You're still reading these things?"

"Where there's a will, there's a way, Big Brother. There's always a possibility."

Ning Yulin spent all day lingering in the sect's archives. His older brothers all knew what he was planning, but none of them thought highly of it. Only the eldest occasionally came to take a look. Their mothers had been biological sisters, but neither had held any prominent status. They were merely like concubine maids, and both were now gone.

"If you asked Father, perhaps..."

Ning Yulin interrupted him without even looking up.

"No need. Father handles countless affairs every day. Why bother him with such a trivial matter of mine?"

"Ah."

For some reason, the eldest always felt that there was an invisible barrier between this little sixth brother and his brothers, as well as their father. A sense of distance.

Could it be because Father's disappointment had been too obvious during his awakening?

Of course not.

The distance was simply because Ning Yulin felt there was no need to communicate certain things with them. Saying anything would only bring trouble upon himself. He did not hold any ill will toward them, either. The Seven Treasures Sect had a rather good atmosphere, and the infighting among direct descendants was not particularly obvious.

Since they all came from the same soul, the other two, Tang Yin and Yu Tianrui, were also thinking about how to develop their martial souls while saving Spirit Ring slots.

The Clear Sky Hammer had the Nine Character Mantra, but Tang Yin felt it was unlikely he would gain access to it before obtaining his third Spirit Ring. He was merely an insignificant member of the fourth generation. The only thing he could cultivate was the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer. Counting Tang Chen as the first generation, Tang Hao's father and the elders were the second generation, Tang Xiao, Tang Yuehua, and the others were the third generation, while Tang Yin was the fourth. As for his parents... as one of the protagonists, those who knew, knew.

That gave him a headache. Once the conflict between the Secret Chamber Douluo and Tang Hao erupted, if the Clear Sky Sect discovered that he had ties to someone from Spirit Hall—An Lan—one could imagine how troublesome it would become.

"If it comes down to it, I'll just have to let the hammer do the talking."

Everyone from top to bottom was a hammer wielder. Using hammers was an excellent way to communicate.

Yu Tianrui.

He was trying to discharge electricity directly. His martial soul clearly possessed obvious lightning power, yet he still had to rely on Spirit Rings to release it. It was like refusing to walk through an open door and insisting on climbing over the wall with a ladder.

If he could successfully master it, perhaps he could develop an electromagnetic field even further.

Super Electromagnetic Cannon.

Or perhaps, nine hundred and ninety thousand horsepower Magnetic Field Rotation, damn it!!!

After some time spent exploring, Zhou Xuefeng discovered a good method for simulating cultivation with a Blue Silver Grass martial soul.

Before sunrise, he dug a hole and buried his lower body in it as grass roots. His upper body remained above ground, his arms spread wide as he summoned his martial soul to serve as grass blades. He imitated the movements of Blue Silver Grass, completely treating himself as a blade of grass.

Like a strand of seaweed, seaweed, dancing among the waves.

He kept it up until noon, then meditated and cultivated the Essence of Qi Method.

Planting himself in the soil increased his cultivation speed by ten percent. The improvement in efficiency did not look significant, but an improvement was still an improvement.

After another cultivation session, Zhou Xuefeng pulled himself out of the ground. He summoned his martial soul, brought it close to his face, and sighed.

"Even if I choose Blue Silver Grass for my first Spirit Ring and increase my martial soul's origin, it probably won't improve much. How exactly am I supposed to cultivate this martial soul? At the end of the day, it's only a blade of grass."

Discussion ### He only brooded over it for a moment.

Even if the Blue Silver Grass martial soul could not amount to much, there were still the other martial souls.

Aside from Ning Yulin, the other three had extremely powerful martial souls. Once their levels rose, they could share them again, and everyone would be able to use them equally.

But if possible, Zhou Xuefeng still wanted to develop Blue Silver Grass.

Falling Flowers and Flying Leaves Can Injure, or True Several Thousand Hands.

"Tang San's Blue Silver Overlord Spear was pretty good."

That kind of destructive power could pierce metal and split stone. It had the momentum of wild grass piercing through rock and continuing to grow.

Yet he had taken such a fine Weaponization Skill and directly used it as a throwing weapon. He really had become obsessed with Hidden Weapons day in and day out.

He prepared lunch.

By the river, he looked at his own face reflected in the water. It was utterly different from how he had looked in the Duke's Mansion. His cheek muscles were full. Though his skin was not particularly fair, he looked energetic.

"No one should be able to recognize me."

As he washed the ingredients, ripples blurred his reflected face. In a daze, it transformed into the people from the Duke's Mansion—the servants who oppressed slaves, the guards, and others. Finally, the steward's face appeared.

Numerous methods of taking revenge on the Duke's Mansion surfaced in his mind, and then he suddenly thought of a brilliant idea.

"I'll definitely go back!"

Half a year later, winter arrived.

Several pitifully light snowfalls had come and gone. Moon Sea City seemed to be located in a temperate region.

All five of them had confirmed that the Essence of Qi Method had a considerable boosting effect on Soul Power cultivation. Zhou Xuefeng's body had completely recovered.

"In weather like this..."

The cold wind cut like knives. If he continued planting himself in the ground to cultivate, he might catch a cold. He could not waste the little money he had painstakingly saved through hunting on getting sick.

He pushed the window open a crack for ventilation, then continued meditating and cultivating the Essence of Qi Method.

Within the space.

"Everyone's here today."

The other four were already seated. Zhou Xuefeng seemed to have arrived a little late.

After more than half a year of cultivation, the five had altered the barren space a little more. The originally crude wooden chairs and round table had become a stone table and five grand armchairs.

"How are things on your end? When do you expect to obtain your Spirit Rings?"

An Lan spoke first.

"Have you considered something? We only had Innate Soul Power of level two when we awakened. If we reach level ten after just over seven months, won't that cultivation speed attract attention?"

It had been over seven months, nearly eight, since their martial soul awakening, and they were already at level ten. That averaged an increase of 1.2 levels of Soul Power per month—simply shocking.

Naturally, the five did not consider it a big deal. They were merely replenishing what had originally been missing, refilling buckets that had once been full but had then been emptied by eighty percent. The effects of the Essence of Qi Method had also exceeded expectations.

He was looking at the other three. Zhou Xuefeng was alone outside living like a wild man, so he did not need to worry about this issue.

"What's there to worry about?"

In the pose of Commander Ikari, Tang Yin rested his chin on his hands atop the table, deliberately putting on a gloomy face.

"Our backgrounds are completely known to them. If anyone asks, what could we possibly know at our age? No one is going to dissect us for research. At most, they'll examine our meridians."

"He's right." Ning Yulin carried a scholarly air and seemed a little feminine. "If someone asks, we can deny everything and say we know nothing. In the end, they'll most likely conclude that something went wrong during our martial soul awakening. Our martial souls absorbed the rest of our Innate Soul Power, making the test results inaccurate."

"In truth, you're the only one who needs to worry about this."

Perhaps due to his martial soul, Yu Tianrui was faintly taller than the other four. With his arms folded, he leaned against the back of his chair.

"The three of us are from clans, while he's a wild man. Only you, despite being in Spirit Hall, have no background whatsoever. You're a commoner. If you suddenly vanished without a trace one day, no one would even notice."

"Then..." An Lan hesitated. "Should I wait another two years?"

"If you intend to stay in Spirit Hall long-term, it's safer to wait two years." Zhou Xuefeng offered his advice. "But if you don't care whether you stay in Spirit Hall or not, you can find an opportunity to come join me. We can be wild men together."

"There's no need for that."

Ning Yulin looked at the other four.

"Just claim that your martial soul mutated. If someone really notices you because of that..."

He suddenly paused. Only after a long while did he continue in an uncertain tone.

"I have a vague feeling that unless all five of us are killed at the same time, we won't truly die. Do you remember when you were thrown into that mass grave? You said your neck had been twisted."

He meant Zhou Xuefeng.

Zhou Xuefeng subconsciously touched the back of his neck.

"Forget it. I'll think about it some more. Anyway, this batch from Spirit Hall Academy won't be going on their group spirit beast hunt until after spring begins. There's still plenty of time."

They moved past the subject and began discussing their choices for their first Spirit Rings.

Yu Tianrui shared his thoughts. Although the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan had researched highly suitable Spirit Ring configurations over countless years, he did not want to follow the route of Sub-Dragon Spirit Beasts. If he truly wanted to pursue the path of bloodline reversion, then he would need dragon-type spirit beasts with exceptionally powerful bloodlines. Yu Tianrui did not believe he could find spirit beasts with powerful bloodlines that just happened to be low enough in age among his first few Spirit Rings.

It would be better to first study the power of lightning.

Besides, the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon already bore the form of a true dragon. How could adding those Sub-Dragon Species bloodlines possibly make it stronger and stronger? When the time came, he could directly go beneath the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to search for Dragon Souls. The effect would be better than any Sub-Dragon Spirit Beast. If there was any remaining dragon blood, that would be even better. With the blood of the two Dragon Kings, wouldn't Martial Soul Evolution be effortless?

The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan had only produced one titled Douluo, Yu Yuanzhen, in all these years. This path probably had some problems.

Though Yu Yuanzhen was very powerful and could fight three opponents alone.

Thinking about it this way, the Dragon Transformation Secret Technique seemed pretty good too.

Wait, was Dragon Transformation even a secret technique? He seemed to recall that it was an ability naturally mastered by the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon martial soul as one's Soul Power level increased...

In any case, it was a powerful skill independent of Spirit Rings. He could not abandon it.

The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon martial soul did not guard the Dragon Transformation Secret Technique from him. Yu Tianrui pondered it, then decided to take things one step at a time. Given his current status, he wanted to first try the elemental route. If it did not work, he could later have the others' Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon martial souls add Sub-Dragon Spirit Beast Spirit Rings and share them over.

"Spirit beasts that generate electricity? Electric Eels? Electric Rays?"

Zhou Xuefeng made a suggestion.

"Please don't." Yu Tianrui politely declined. "Given the logic of the Douluo World, although those two spirit beasts can generate electricity, their habitats mean they probably lean more toward the Water Attribute. Besides, even if I don't necessarily choose Sub-Dragon Spirit Beasts, I can't pick spirit beasts that provide absolutely no benefit to my martial soul's bloodline, can I? What evolutionary power could fish living in the sea provide to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon?"

"Purely lightning-element hundred-year spirit beasts aren't easy to find."

Ning Yulin recalled the compendiums he had read.

"Why not choose a buffing ability? If you boost yourself enough, perhaps you can naturally master the power of Discharge."

"I suddenly remembered something. Didn't we forget about something that can strengthen the body and increase the age limit of Spirit Rings we can absorb?"

Tang Yin vaguely remembered something, but could not recall it clearly.

"You mean Whale Rubber?"

Ning Yulin asked. Tang Yin slapped the table.

"That's it!"

"Ah!"